I've been visiting DailyKos and they've gone crazy over there.  So many of those folks are just plain naive.  Long threads about how the Democrats have betrayed the progressive left and how they're gonna vote Democrats out of office.  It's just plain stupid and I'm talking Nader-stupid.  For all it's short-comings the Democratic Party is the only hope for progressive thinkers.  Ralph Nader and company put George Bush in the White House the first time.  There were enough Nader votes in Florida to easily hand the election to Gore.  This object lesson should be pointed out to every boneheaded turncoat who rejects the only real political party out there that's pushing progressive ideas. 

People need to understand that in a representative government, you don't get everything on your list in the first six months.  If there's any fault I have with the progressive blogoshere, it's the inability to wait for anything and the other gripe I have is so many people who post seem to have no idea how Congress works--how a bill is introduced or anything about the process.  Government in action is not pretty and it's not a pure science where you put something in and it comes out the way you want it to at the end. 

We don't have a big enough majority, especially in the Senate to veto-proof a bill.  We need to get out there and elect more Democrats to give us a veto-proof Congress.  That's when we'll see more progressive issues pushed and passed.

Sorry to be so angry on this issue, but this one really pisses me off.  I'm sitting here in Kentucky where there's a really important primary race today and turnout sucks.  If once, just once, all the talking progressives would get up off the couch, put down the bong and vote, maybe we'd get something done. 

End of Rant

Look I support Reid/Feingold, and was disappointed when Webb voted no.  But for me, that was the end of the line in this funding fight.  It's OVER.  We need 67 votes to override the veto to get a change in policy.  We don't have those votes.  Senators like Webb aren't there yet, but maybe he'll be there the next go round.

But just because some Dems aren't there yet, doesn't mean they should be thrown under the bus.  And acting all purist like taking people out in a primary is beyond ridiculous.

Here's hoping cooler minds prevail.

The bottom line is, we need our country back.  We can work out the details later.  Anybody who doesn't understand this hasn't been paying attention for the last six years.

is this left-wing insistence on ideological purity and the all or nothing attitude.